Liverpool: Arne Slot namechecks Chelsea and Tottenham in Premier League title reminder

The Reds were not astatine their champion successful Sunday’s clash with Southampton but emerged from a melodramatic brushwood connected the southbound seashore with a important 3 points pursuing a 3-2 victory.

Dominik Szoboszlai had fixed Slot’s broadside the pb against the League’s bottommost broadside but Adam Armstrong levelled from the punishment spot earlier half-time pursuing a foul from Andy Robertson connected the awesome Tyler Dibling.

Mateus Fernandes past handed the Saints a daze pb conscionable earlier the hr mark, lone for Mohamed Salah to respond with a brace.

Salah archetypal caught goalkeeper Alex McCarthy with a clever decorativeness to reconstruct parity earlier scoring from the punishment spot himself aft Yuki Sugawara was penalised for a handball during the last 10 minutes of the game.

It means Liverpool sit 8 points wide of City, who they entertain astatine Anfield adjacent week. Given the authorities of situation the champions find themselves successful aft 5 consecutive defeats, Slot’s broadside look beardown favourites to triumph and thereby found a whopping 11-point pb implicit the squad galore see their top rivals.

Still, Slot insists things tin alteration precise rapidly and namechecked the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham arsenic imaginable rivals for the title.

“I deliberation it was aboriginal successful the play that Arsenal led by 8 points and City came back,” helium said.

“You cognize if you look Arsenal, City, Chelsea oregon Tottenham who were large yesterday [winning 4-0 against City] and tin triumph truthful galore games successful a row. It’s bully to person this presumption but we are decidedly not getting carried away.”